Lucy Alexander Author and Poet
I love to arrange words.
Sometimes this means poetry. Sometimes its stories. Writing is my thing.
Equations of Breath is available NOW from Recent Work Press, released in April 2024. Previous Collection ‘Strokes of Light’ came out in 2020.
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“The poems here speak plainly, in order to clarify our visions of the everyday impossible, building the figurative bridges which stretch from here to locations we can never fully occupy, whether that is the house or tree scanned into a digital map, or an elegantly terrifying celestial phenomena wheeling away in deep space.”
Oz Hardwick, March 2024
“The formal structures of the poems exploit the glorious tension of language: the mystery and witchiness of section 1 trapped within the four walls of the prose poem; the childpoems filled with line or stanza breaks that mirror the half-uttered memories. This is a deeply empathic collection that finds surprise and delight in the most quotidian of places; that respects the pulse and breath of everyday life.”
Dr Jen Webb, May 2020
Pod Link
Here is a link to a podcast I did recently with the lovely Mr. Ken Ward on his fabulous ‘What I Don’t Talk About @ Barbecues’ where we got into the nitty gritty of the lyric impulse, the new normal post-Covid and what I’m really sure about…so really, happy to talk about most of this…
New Book of Poetry ‘Strokes of Light’ to be released 25th May 2020.
Lucy Alexander’s new collection is suffused with subtle observations of nature, childhood, and memory. In imagery loaded with both immediacy and resonance, each ‘stroke’of these luminous poems invokes the sense that great and shifting worlds are coiled within even the smallest of things. Lucy Alexander conjures up a world that shivers between the deeply familiar,…
New Book of Poetry – ‘Strokes of Light’
The poems are preoccupied with splitting the ordinary open to reveal what’s extraordinary under the surface. I say ‘the poems’ because they seem to take me there, wherever there is. Under the ordinary experience of having your own children in the world is the absolute gobsmackery that they exist at all. Under the ordinary workings…
‘Lucy Alexander’s poems, vibrant, smart and witty with awareness of the ways a woman’s voice can be side-lined and side-stepped, attentive to the almost untouchable meniscus of grief, caught by ideas and music, become a body of poetry that incorporates astronomy, mythology, biology, neuroscience, landscape, nature, breath, air and song thrillingly and knowingly.’
Emeritus Professor Kevin Brophy AM
Sarah St Vincent Welch
Strokes of Light by Lucy Alexander is a work of relative selflessness that engages reader fascination. This is possible when the literary work makes no sign of labour and the author creates it with no hope of reward of any sort.
Thriveni C Mysore – Plumwood Mountain Journal, 2023
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